Long Range Forecast — March 6, 2026
The Bride! | Warner Bros.
Domestic Opening Weekend Range: $15M – $25M
Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley lead this sophomore directorial effort from Maggie Gyllenhaal, a take on Bride of Frankenstein set in 1930s Chicago. This is the second directorial effort from Gyllenhaal and the first to get a major theatrical release; her first, 2021’s The Last Daughter, was a Netflix title.
The Bride!‘s star-studded cast—which includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Annette Bening, Peter Sarsgaard, and Penelope Cruz alongside Bale and Buckley, the latter a first-time Oscar nominee for her work in Hamnet—should help drive awareness. Another factor that could drive box office its its presence on Imax screens, though the allure of the format will could be decidedly be less pronounced for Q1 horror releases like The Bride! and Scream 7 than for more spectacle-driven films like Avatar: Fire and Ash, still raking in the dollars in premium formats over a month after its theatrical debut.
The Bride! is the second take on the Frankenstein mythos to come out in the last few months, the other being Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, which as a Netflix release does not have reliable, publicly-available box office data. March horror releases with a debut gross roughly comparable to our forecasting panel’s range for The Bride! include 2016’s 10 Cloverfield Lane ($24.7M domestic opening) and 2017’s Life ($12.5M), the latter co-starring The Bride!‘s Jake Gyllenhaal. Warner Bros. kicked off its 2025 slate in late January with another female-led horror thriller, Companion, which opened to $9.3M en route to a $20.8M domestic total. The Bride! is the second film of 2026 for the studio, which kicks off this year’s slate on Valentine’s Day with Wuthering Heights, currently opening in the $30 – $40M range.
Tracking Updates [As Of 1/23/26]
| Release Date | Title | Predicted Opening Range | Distributor |
| 1/23 | Mercy | $12M – $15M | Amazon/MGM |
| 1/23 | Clicka | $2M – $4M | Sony |
| 1/30 | Send Help | $12M – $17M | 20th Century Studios / Disney |
| 1/30 | Iron Lung | $10M – $15M | Independent |
| 1/30 | Melania | $1M – $2M | Amazon/MGM |
| 1/30 | Shelter | $5M – $8M | Black Bear |
| 2/6 | Solo Mio | $4M – $7M | Angel Studios |
| 2/6 | The Strangers: Chapter 3 | $5M – $8M | Lionsgate |
| 2/13 | Wuthering Heights | $30M – $40M | Warner Bros. |
| 2/13 | GOAT | $20M – $25M | Sony |
| 2/13 | Crime 101 | $10M – $15M | Amazon/MGM |
| 2/13 | Scarlet | $1M – $2M | Sony/Crunchyroll |
| 2/20 | I Can Only Imagine 2 | $15M – $25M | Lionsgate |
| 2/20 | How to Make a Killing | $8M – $12M | A24 |
| 2/27 | Scream 7 | $25M – $35M | Paramount |
| 3/6 | The Bride! | Warner Bros. | |
| 3/6 | Hoppers | Disney/Pixar |
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